The Stamp Collectors Corner

Some mythical creatures are believed to originate from real creatures that were often described from traveler’s tales.  For good storytelling purposes, mythical creatures often took on the form of two actual creatures combined into one making a new hybrid creature.  Others were just ones that were made up and downplayed for good storytelling purposes.  Over [...]

The United States Postal Service joined forces with Great Britain in a joint issue with a couple of adorable postage stamps.  Issued on January 10, 2006, each set in the US and England contained eight stamps, but only two of the stamps in each set were issued in both sets.  The stamp sets featured popular [...]

In continuation from Friday…
Once the artist for the stamp design was chosen for the Wildlife of the 50 States set, he went about his task of creating a list of the 50 forms of wildlife.  To his surprise 46 of the 50 that he submitted to the Citizen’s Advisory Committee was approved, at least initially [...]

In continuation from Wednesday…
One of the reasons that the Citizen’s Advisory Board chose to create these wildlife postage stamps is that they found that the general public was more interested in animals than the other suggestions that were coming in from the public.  One road block that they encountered, however; is that not all states [...]

In June of 1987, the United States Postal Service released a much anticipated set of 50 postage stamps called the “Wildlife of the 50 States”.  The USPS had released other large panes prior to the release of these wildlife postage stamps, but none quite as artistically impressive as this particular set.  Previous sets included 50 [...]

Each October is designated “National Stamp Collecting Month” by the United States Postal Service.  To help kick off the campaign in 2002, which is intended to get youth interested in stamp collecting, the USPS issued a set of stamps called “American Bats” which featured one of natures most feared and misunderstood creatures…bats.  In particular in [...]

Before the days of the internet, postage stamp collectors had a far more difficult time finding stamps from different countries.  They were likely limited to trading with other local collectors, waiting for a special letter to arrive in the mail, or if they were lucky, they knew of a good Stamp Dealer.
Stamp Dealers are a [...]

Did you know that there are over 21,000 pets, without a loving home, that are euthanized each day in the United States?  That number is staggering and tragic when you realize that the death of millions of animals could be avoided simply and relatively inexpensively if more pets were spayed or neutered.  These numbers do [...]

Daffy Duck, one of America’s much loved Looney Tunes characters, was honored with a commemorative postage stamp in April of 1999.  At the time, Daffy joined his other Looney Tunes friends, Bugs Bunny and Sylvester and Tweety, as some of the top sellers in the USPS stamp selling history.
Issuing the Looney Tunes postage stamps were [...]

Maybe I am just feeling nostalgic, maybe I have just watched too much television in my youth, but I must admit that I love the “Early TV Memories” postage stamps that have been recently issued by the United States Postal Service.  The much anticipated set honors several much loved television programs from the 1950’s and [...]